the rhetorical situation
the people for whom the text is being created
What is the audience?
Persuasive communication, whether through speaking, writing, images, videos, or bodily movement
What is rhetoric?
A student is asked to write a script for a YouTube video in their creative writing class. This part of the rhetorical situation is played by the student
What is the writer/rhetor?
You tweet about your opinion of a new movie you just saw. An example of this part of the rhetorical situation is that you have to write 240 characters or less
What is a constraint?
the person creating something to communicate in the rhetorical situation. two possible correct answers
A song is an example of a text. The sheet music for that song is an example of this
What is an artifact?
A librarian creates a research guide for a class on film theory and posts it publicly on the library's website. This part of the rhetorical situation is primarily the students of the class, but also includes the library's patrons and any users of their website
What is the audience?
You draw a fun little picture on the Jamboard in your WRD 103 class. An example of this part of the rhetorical situation is "to do something so you can focus"
What is the purpose?
the thing being created in the rhetorical situation--any form of communication that humans create. examples include an essay, a speech, a youtube video, and so on
What is a text?
The four common types of rhetorical appeals: an appeal to credibility, an appeal to timeliness, an appeal to logic, and an appeal to the emotions and values of an audience
What are ethos, kairos, logos, and pathos?
A musician writes a new song as a birthday gift for their sister. This part of the rhetorical situation is the song/the sheet music
What is the text?
You draw a fun little picture on the Jamboard in your WRD 103 class. An example of this part of the rhetorical situation is the fact that you're a bit bored and want something to do so you can focus
What is the exigence?
factors that influence other elements of the rhetorical situation
What are constraints?
What is literacy?
An actress makes a behind-the-scenes TikTok to promote her newest movie. This part of the rhetorical situation is "to spark interest in seeing the movie"
What is the purpose?
What is the genre?
name for the type of text, or the broad category of text, begin created in the rhetorical situation
What is genre?
The awareness that we have already have literacies, that our literacies have histories/experiences behind them, and that our literacies matter/count as literacies even if they aren't aligned with dominant literacies
What is rhetorical attunement?
An actress makes a behind-the-scenes TikTok to promote her newest movie. This part of the rhetorical situation is her desire to get people to watch her movie
What is the exigence?
You create a rhetorical-situation themed Jeopardy game for your WRD 103 class. An example of this part of the rhetorical situation is the Jeopardy question/answer format
What are constraints? OR: What is a genre convention?